Invited Speakers

NN23 Invited Speakers (tentative list)

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Sir David King
Founder & Chair, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University, UK
The Climate Crisis: The State of Climate Science, and What Must be Done Now

short bio

Sir Dave King, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Founder and Chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge, CCRC; Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, CCAG: Affiliate Partner of SYSTEMIQ Limited; and Senior Strategy Adviser to the President of Rwanda. He was the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, 2000-2007 and the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change, 2013-2017. He has travelled widely to persuade all countries to act on climate change. He initiated an in-depth risk analysis approach to climate change, working with the Governments of China and India in particular, and initiated a collaborative programme, now known as Mission Innovation, to create a publicly funded £23bn pa research and development international exercise, which involves 25 countries and the EU, to deliver all technologies needed to complete the transition into a fossil-fuel-free world economy. As Govt Chief Scientific Adviser he raised the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the British £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute. Sir David was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991; Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002; knighted in 2003; made “Officier dans l’ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur” in 2009; and is The American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022 Hamburg Awardee for Science Diplomacy.

Keynote Speakers

	Prof. Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Nanostructuring contact lenses for therapeutic applications
	Dr. Francesco De Angelis, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy Toward Single-molecule Protein Identification by Plasmonic Solid-state Nanopores
	Prof. Milan Damnjanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Topology and ground states of layers
	Prof. Lola Eniola-Adefeso, University of Michigan, USA
	Prof. Kostas Sarakinos, University of Helsinki, Finland Temporally modulated vapor fluxes: a tool for controlling atomic arrangement and morphology in thin films
	Prof. Masaru Tanaka, Kyushu University, Japan Design of Multi-functional Biomaterials for Advanced Medical Devices: The Intermediate Water Concept

Invited Speakers

	Dr. Raul Arenal, University of Zaragoza, Spain
	Prof. Fabio Biscarini, Italian Institute of Technology/University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
	Prof. Aristos Christou, University of Maryland, USA Nanostructures achieved by the heterogeneous integration of a superconductor and Wide Bandgap Semiconductor
	Dr. George Deligeorgis, FORTH IESL, Greece
	Dr. Evangelos Delivopoulos, University of Reading, UK
	Dr. Ilise Feitshans, European Scientific Institute, France
	Dr. Dimitra Georgiadou, University of Southampton, UK
	Dr. Paschalis Gkoupidenis, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany Organic electronics for neuromorphic sensing and biointerfacing
	Prof. Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), China Amorphous silicon nano-aqueduct architecture for Li-ion battery anodes
	Prof. Vangelis Harmandaris, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
	Prof. Charlotte Hauser, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
	Prof. Catherine Journet-Gautier, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France Chemical synthesis of hBN crystals from preceramic polymers
	Prof. Joseph Kioseoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
	Dr. Aron Kneer, TinniT Technologies GmbH, Germany A digital path for an accelerated computational design of novel membranes in biotechnology
	Dr. Julian Ledieu, Institut Jean Lamour, University of Lorraine - CNRS, France Epitaxial growth of complex Al-Fe thin films: from metastable to high temperature phases
	Prof. Wolfgang Maser, Institute of Carbochemistry (ICB-CSIC), Spain Graphene Oxide: A green interface material
	Prof. Ivanka Milosevic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
	Prof. Ivan Minev, University of Sheffield, UK Materials and Technologies for Hydrogel-based Bioelectronics
	Prof. Yannis Missirlis, University of Patras, Greece Nanomechanics and Nanobiology
	Prof. Alexandre Nomine, University of Lorraine, France
	Prof. Georgia Papaefthymiou, Villanova University, USA
	Prof. Tomasz Puzyn, QSAR Lab Ltd., Poland
	Prof. Aylin Sendemir, Ege University, Turkey
	Prof. Katsuya Teshima, Shinshu University, Japan Highly designed flux-grown crystals for next-generation LIBs
	Prof. Luca Vattuone, University of Genoa, Italy Graphene chemistry: reactions under cover
	Dr. George Volonakis, University of Rennes 1, France
	Prof. Lisheng Wang, University of Ottawa, Canada
	Prof. Darius Widera, University of Reading, UK